HONG KONG—The coronavirus outbreak in South Korea is now spreading faster than the epidemic in China, where the virus first emerged, daily government data indicated, underscoring the difficulties in containing the spread of a disease that some observers already believe to be a pandemic.
South Korea, the country worst-hit by the coronavirus apart from China, reported 505 new infections over the 24-hour period ended Thursday afternoon, raising the national total to 1,766 cases. The tally exceeded the 433 new cases that China...
Good work people sanitize korea from coronavirus
It's a bunch of fear mongering. We all get sick occasionally and some people die. Relax, the sky isn't falling!
Anthony Are we sure? I’d imagine Chinese data is mostly false and South Korea’s is mostly true.
BBCLBicker Korea is a very peculiar case. the death toll is 13 so far out of about 69,000 people tested. Amazing test speed! Compare with Japan? Japan's death toll? & the number of tested Japanese? Compare with Abe gov. & Xi ? Moon gov has been very transparent & even remarkable, I think.
hbdchick South Korea has high population density, very little personal space in public.
BBCLBicker If we want competent response we must manage expectations or else politics will shut it down.
maggieNYT sorta like how MITI lost all cred in the late 90s ? or not a parallel at all ?
maggieNYT China threatened to imprison anyone who walked out of their house in Hubei. Why wouldn’t it be spreading faster in countries who didn’t use such Draconian measures?
CCP numbers are not accurate. 🇨🇳
Duh it’s faster. South Korea is telling the truth.
The trouble when you weigh money over humanity. If the place has a history of deceit and bullying, what do you think it will be the inevitable?
maggieNYT There's probably thousands dying in the United States from Coronavirus but it'll never make the news.
maggieNYT Spreading faster than the epidemic in China based on China's completely unreliable numbers
Party due to better reporting, partly due to S. Korea not having a authoritarian regime that can handle it with a tight fist
Wall Street responding to the FLU. I CALL BS!!
Coronovirus = FLU. Symptoms.Coronaviruses are a group of common viruses. People get infected with human coronaviruses at some time in their life. Can cause mild to moderate upper-respiratory infections, like the common cold. Can also cause illnesses bronchitis and pneumonia.
Laurie_Garrett Is it, though?
maggieNYT Wonder if this will impact the supply chain to Avon. LG now owns Avon.
What’s going on in NK? Thanks
mhmondy It’s not spreading faster—they are tracking and testing and providing full disclosure. China is not.
maggieNYT It’s only because the cases are being reported more accurately unlike China
maggieNYT It only seems that way because they were lying about it
maggieNYT uh, thats bc the CCP LIES about their number of infected
This is the test score handed over by a democratic country.
maggieNYT 😱
maggieNYT Spraying the street is rediculous!!!
Please don't criticize him for being one of the only people being honest
maggieNYT Or maybe China is lying.
maggieNYT This is because SK is reporting real v lowered death & outbreak totals
maggieNYT Really. Political criticism? Trump saying it is everyone else’s fault.
maggieNYT That’s probably because China lied about how many were infected with the virus. The Chinese data is pure propaganda and thus totally unreliable.
maggieNYT Democracies can't impose the kind of restrictions China did in Wuhan and Hubei province.
Well the Chinese are communists so they can pretty much demand things of their population like quarantining a whole city. Hope Bernie doesn't start using this as a Positive at the next Debate.....
maggieNYT can confirm
M_PaulMcNamara 'The proposed regulations would permit consumption of nine types of meat—including pork, beef, chicken and duck—as well as aquatic animals not protected by existing law, though the municipal government could subsequently add more animals to this “white list.” beefanddairy
South Korea is just telling the truth, unlike lying China.
Laurie_Garrett It's not spreading faster, they're testing more people.
Because South Korea is detecting faster than any country without hiding or blocking.
Hear that Trump? Get your ample ass moving and start doing something!
2/27/20: A few images from the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering 'Mapping 2019-NCOV' map. Images are from South Korea, Italy, Iran and U.S. Page:outbreak nCoV2019 health
oh, no worries, WSJ, the scientifically astute President that you support so strongly? realdonaldtrump is a very stable genius....he will certainly make the right decisions & take care of everyone .....LOL...after he takes care of himself, of course
sjoerddendaas Maybe South Korea speaks the truth and china tried to save face and their economy, maybe just maybe......
Wasn't South Korea on that list Trump was talking about of the countries best prepared for an outbreak... bodes well for us...
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Maybe your article should place some perspective on the issue instead of stoking fear. Seasonal flu in US killed 15,000 in 2019 alone.
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Press report: 'The decision to put Mr. Pence in charge was made on Wednesday after the president told some people that the vice president didn't 'have anything else to do', according to people familiar with the president’s comments'
'spreading faster than the epidemic in China' You're assuming the China numbers are accurate.
The original premise about China is FALSE.
Life is over
Nothing to do with faster. China's numbers are fake.
Trump and Pence are on the job... nothing to worry about.